Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)
''Æthelred''s reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler. If he had died in AD 1000, history would have remembered him more kindly''
Few monarchs of the Middle Ages have had a worse popular reputation than Æthelred II, ''the Unready'', remembered as the king who lost England to Viking invaders. But, as Richard Abels shows, the failure to defend his realm was not ent...
''Æthelred''s reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler. If he had died in AD 1000, history would have remembered him more kindly''
Few monarchs of the Middle Ages have had a worse popular reputation than Æthelred II, ''the Unready'', remembered as the king who lost England to Viking invaders. But, as Richard Abels shows, the failure to defend his realm was not ent...
